Learning Resources Gears! Gears! Gears! Super Building Toy Set - Building Toys, STEM Activities, Fine Motor Skills, Toddler Engineers Kit, , Construction Bots, Kindergarten Science, Gifts for Kids

This is a great set for a little constructor. My 3.5 years old son loves constructing complex stuff with toys therefore to encourage him we have purchased many sets for him (legos, mega blocks, thistle blocks, quercetti tubes) Each offer different fun but this one stands out being the most mobile one.It comes with 95 hard plastic pieces, some are to construct the base plate while another group is to carry the fun to the third dimension (the upright sticks) The rest of the pieces are colorful interdenting gears. Finally it has two handle bits which you need to move the gears round and round.You can put the gears and sticks in various combinations (gears on the side of sticks or sticks on top of gears or gears on top of each other etc.)After some trial and error experience with me (my son and I) we figured out the way they should be aligned to transfer a horizontal rotation to a vertical one. Then my son took over and started building interesting combinations. I am sure he will master it in time.My experience is that the parts are a little stiff which is good for non wobbling steady rotation but bad for the little one to stick them together. So younger children may need some help from the parents.The price ($30) is good considering the number of pieces. Each piece comes to around 30 cents which is lower than many other construction toys. (better than quercetti and lego duplos but slightliy worse than mega blocks.) Besides the storage can is a real good advantage to store it properly after play time.This toy set offers good fun for the little one and helps develop his/her fine motor skills as well as supporting the imagination. Yet it might be difficult to operate or master for younger children. I recommend it to anyone who is after a good toy set at a decent price...

Great toy for a busy and interested toddler. Our 3 year old loves these and really can spend a lot of time breaking it down and building it up. It’s really a great activity

My grandson pulls it out when he visits. He likes the round pieces that he uses as wheels.

I bought this set for my 4 and 2 year old grandchildren knowing that it contained only one size gear. I had also purchased the Gizmos set that has only 82 pieces, so I thought this would expand it nicely.Well, kids are kids and we (and I do mean we, the three of us) wound up playing with this set by itself.What great fun! The 2 year old took to it like a duck to water and was happily building gear layouts that did nothing but turn. But she love it. Turn the crank and all the gears clattered along, amusing her no end.The 4 year old, who has experience with these at school, was more ambitious. It turned into a race between grandson and grandpa to see who could expand our creation in the most adventurous way. By the end, we had constructed quite a machine that clattered and whirred and used up most of the pieces in the bucket.The verdict: this set by itself is massively fun and entertaining for a 4 year old, a 2 year old and their substantially older grandfather. Having just one size of gear is not a drawback. And this set does work well with the expansion sets.Gears! Gears! Gears! is a great concept and I can see that I will be happily expanding our collection over the months to come. I hope the kids interest in it will be as ardent as mine.Jerry

I bought similar toy 10 years ago and bought this for my grandson to keep at his home. He loves it. So many different ways to create and explore.

The media could not be loaded. My 4yo enjoyed this a lot. It's engaged him good enough that he forgot I existed for awhile. It is solidly made. However, when participating play with him, I noticed that it's all the same size gear. They don't catch each other well (if at all) when trying a climbing structure, which does limits the type of play they can do quite a bit and overall fairly disappointing. That means the gears have to be vertical or horizontal to each other in order to move. Not sure if anyone other impressions of what they might be able to do with or, so I am just clarifying it.

My grandson and I have fun working together with these!

There were enough pieces that both my 4 and 6 year old grandsons played together. They love it.